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Broom vs Whisk - What's the difference?

broom | whisk |

As nouns the difference between broom and whisk

is that broom is a domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping while whisk is a quick, light sweeping motion.

As verbs the difference between broom and whisk

is that broom is to sweep while whisk is to move something with quick light sweeping motions.

As a proper noun Broom

is {{surname|lang=en}.

broom

English

(wikipedia broom)

Etymology 1

(etyl), from (etyl) ‘edge’. Related to (l), (l).

Noun

  • (label) A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping.
  • (countable, curling) An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a sweeper.
  • Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, in the genera , with long, thin branches and small or few leaves.
  • * 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 4 scene 1:
    • and thy broom groves,
    Whose shadow the dismissed bachelor loves,
    Being lass-lorn
    Derived terms
    * a new broom sweeps clean * broom wagon * broomstick * brooming * pushbroom / push broom / push-broom * whiskbroom

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To sweep.
  • * 1855 September 29, , "Model Officials", in Household Words: A Weekly Journal , Bradbury and Evens (1856), page 206:
    • “[…] Sidi, I was busy in the exercise of my functions, occupied in brooming the front of the stables, when who should come but Hhamed Ould Denéï on horseback, at full gallop, as if he were going to break his neck. […]”
  • * , Our Street'', in ''Christmas Books: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch'', Chapman & Hall (1857), ''Our Street page 8:
    • It was but this morning at eight, when poor Molly, was brooming the steps, and the baker paying her by no means unmerited compliments, that my landlady came whirling out of the ground-floor front, and sent the poor girl whimpering into the kitchen.
  • * Opal Stanley Whiteley, The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart , Atlantic Monthly Press (1920), pages 58–59:
    • After that I did take the broom from its place, and I gave the floor a good brooming'. I ' broomed the boards up and down and cross-ways. There was not a speck of dirt on them left.
  • * 1997 , Will Hobbs, Far North (HarperCollins, ISBN 0380725363), page 100:
    • We broomed the dirt floor clean with spruce branches, brought our gear inside, and moved in.
    Quotations
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    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nautical) (gloss, to clean a ship's bottom)

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    whisk

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl), from (etyl) visk According to] eng. (vist laant fra nord. ) whisk, the English (certainly borrowed from Old Norse) whisk[http://machaut.uchicago.edu/?action=search&word=whisk&resource=Webster's&quicksearch=on Etymology in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m), (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A quick, light sweeping motion.
    • With a quick whisk , she swept the cat from the pantry with her broom.
  • A kitchen utensil, made from stiff wire loops fixed to a handle, used for whipping (or a mechanical device with the same function).
    • He used a whisk to whip up a light and airy souffle.
  • A bunch of twigs or hair etc, used as a brush.
    • Peter dipped the whisk in lather and applied it to his face, so he could start shaving.
  • A small handheld broom with a small (or no) handle.
    • '' I used a whisk to sweep the counter, then a push-broom for the floor.
  • A plane used by coopers for evening chines.
  • A kind of cape, forming part of a woman's dress.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • My wife in her new lace whisk .
  • (archaic) An impertinent fellow.
    • (Halliwell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To move something with quick light sweeping motions.
  • * J. Fletcher
    • He that walks in gray, whisking his riding rod.
  • In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream.
  • To move something rapidly and with no warning.
  • * Walpole
    • I beg she would not impale worms, nor whisk carp out of one element into another.
  • To move lightly and nimbly.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) The card game whist.